Joyce Cheng Wins Over the Audience; Re-enacts Lydia Shum’s Parts in “Flower Palace”

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Joyce Cheng Wins Over the Audience; Re-enacts Lydia Shum’s Parts in “Flower Palace”

Joyce Cheng’s Mother Days has become lonelier since she lost her beloved mom. She was able to perform in the musical “Flower Palace” as a waitress on Mother’s Day. She used her mom Lydia Shum’s name when she was contributing to charity. This Mother’s Day is very special meaning for Joyce and Lydia.

Lydia’s last performance on a charity programme was in 2006 for “星光熠熠耀保良”. The organizer of the event made special arrangements to re-enact certain parts of “Flower Palace”. They also had Joyce play Lydia’s part. They wanted to do a tribute to Lydia’s happy and professional work ethics. Eric Tsang spoke about how Lydia’s dream to perform in a musical play was realized in 2001. He said: “She (Lydia) hopes that the flame could be passed onto Joyce. This way the “Happy Fruit” spirit can stay in the people’s heart and seen by their eyes through Joyce’s continuation.”

As seen during the performance, Joyce not only sang well but she was very bright and cute. There were fans that screamed Joyce’s sang to cheer her on. Joyce thought that she wasn’t as cute as her mom when she was playing Lydia’s waitress part. Alice Lau was also performing that night and praised that Lydia appeared in Joyce. Woo Fung (胡楓) said: “Joyce sang and danced well. She was pretty and hard-working. Every time I see her perform, my eyes tear up.”

Netizen also commended Joyce for singing better than the new generation of female singers that night. There were some people who did not like Joyce’s Lolita look. But others point out the look was the same as Lydia when she was performing that part. Joyce dressed like her mom for that part and wasn’t trying to act cute so there wasn’t anything wrong.

Last night, Joyce did not go to the celebration dinner because she participated in the charity walk at the “第四屆母親節揹水步行 (Fourth Annual Mother’s Day Water Bucket Carrying Walk)” during the morning. Joyce donated HK$100800 in Lydia’s name. The charity collected money for the Lotus Light Charity Society to provide and build water storage facility for the poor. The collected charity money can build more than 63 water storage units. Joyce expressed that it was a painful Mother’s Day but she wanted to extend her mom’s love for charity work.

Joyce was the “Family Love Ambassador (親恩)” and she was the opening ceremony guest walker. She personally carried a bucket of water on her back so she could empathize with the poor in Gansu. She hopes to be able to visit them. Joyce admitted that she didn’t experience any living condition sufferings under the protective loving care of her mom. So she feels very luckily and wants to help people. She collected donation from her mom’s good friends and donated the money in her mom’s name. She did not ask her dad Adam Cheng for donations yet.